Gen 75 Committee

Gen 75 Committee

The Gen 75 Committee was a subcommittee of the British Cabinet, convened by Prime Minister Clement Attlee on 29 August 1945. The purpose of the committee was to discuss and establish the British government's nuclear policy. Gen 75 was dubbed by Attlee as the "Atom Bomb Committee".

Membership of Gen 75 comprised amongst them: the Prime Minister (Clement Attlee), the Lord President of the Council (Herbert Morrison), the Foreign Secretary (Ernest Bevin), and the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Hugh Dalton).

On 18 December 1945, the Gen 75 Committee agreed the initial step of building one or more nuclear reactors and the creation of the British atomic energy programme. Attlee appointed Air Marshal Viscount Portal of Hungerford, former Chief of the Air Staff, as Controller of Production, Atomic Energy (CPAE). Portal was aidied by a small staff of civil servants, some with experience of the earlier Tube Alloys project, and enjoyed direct access to the Prime Minister.

The Gen 75 Committee was replaced by an official ministerial committee in February 1947.

Sources

* [http://www.palgrave.com/pdfs/1403921024.pdf Atomic Polices and Policymakers]
* [http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Uk/UKOrigin.html Britain's Nuclear Weapons]


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